By Jesse Eijsbroek On August 3rd, 2014, a Herdenking Ceremony will be held in the Bay Area at Oakmont Memorial Park in Lafayette, California. At the ceremony, we honor the sacrifices made by civilians and the military during the Japanese occupation in the Dutch East Indies and elsewhere under the Japanese rule. The Military Color…
The annual memorial was held in Los Angeles on August 9, 2014. On this day we remembered and honored the fallen of the Dutch East Indies forces and civilians (men, women and children) during the Japanese occupation during WWII in South East Asia and during the bersiap period. Welcoming word was given by Mr. Auke…
By Kathryn Pentecost Fig.1: Dutch architecture, Yogyakarta 2011 (Collection: The author) The Dutch were certainly not the first Europeans to trade in the archipelago; English and Portuguese traders were also keen to exploit the natural resources of the archipelago. The Dutch, however, created the first multinational trading empire with the purpose of breaking the Portuguese…
By Kathryn Pentecost Indonesia is known as the world’s most populace Muslim nation and its cultural history is richly diverse. Throughout their history, Indonesians have been influenced by a diversity of religious and cultural influences, (though some commentators today fear that the country is becoming a less tolerant place) (Vltchek, 2012). Looking back into Indonesia’s…
Response by William H. Frederick on Indisch4ever.nu on November 21, 2013: I am afraid things have gotten rather out of hand, with people interpreting my original article in their own way (perhaps without having read it), and misquoting me. For example, I don’t think I said anywhere, and certainly never intended to say, that 250,00…
RIJSWIJK, THE NETHERLANDS – The wave of ethnic violence in the Dutch East Indies that started in 1945, has been regretfully relegated to the background by the Netherlands. The murder of thousands of (Indies) Dutch during the Bersiap period, has always been tentatively accepted, “while it can best be defined as ethnic cleansing.” This is…
Who will win the Golden Rice Bowl 2013? Dutch-Indonesian cooking is very much alive and ready for the 21st century. For the first time a Dutch-Indonesian cooking competition will be held in the Netherlands. This event is initiated and organized by the online magazine Indisch 3.0. I have the honor to be part of the…
By Margaret Laurens – October 30, 2013. The 5th Annual Indo Heritage Festival took place on a beautiful sunny late-summer day in The Gazebo in Haverstraw NY on September 7th 2013. The annual event brought together about 100 attendees Indos, and family and friends of Indos, from New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and as far away as…
By Jamie D. Stern, Director of Research The Indo Project is dedicated to the preservation, promotion, and celebration of Indo culture and history through education and raising public awareness. We present information that allows the world to see that we are an identifiable people, despite our world-wide dispersion due to expulsion from our homeland. Celebration…
Farewell to the Indies (translation of Weg uit Indië, published in 2012 in the Netherlands) tells about the adventures of two ten-year-old children during the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies in World War 2 and the ‘bersiap’ period that followed. It is written for all ages from ten years upward. Hans Vervoort (Magelang,…